The US Brewers Cup is this weekend if you can even believe it. And not just USBrC. The US Coffee in Good Spirits and the US Latte Art Championships are also descending upon The Fruit event space in Durham, North Carolina to crown new national champions. Thus the eyes of the American specialty coffee world will be on North Carolina this weekend, many of whom will actually be there in person to experience the excitement firsthand.
And if you are one of those lucky attendees, you may want to pop over to any of the three Cocoa Cinnamon locations—the retail front for Little Waves Coffee Roasters—to pre-game on their very special Premium Pour-Over Menu for USCC Nationals weekend.
Announced via Instagram, the menu reads more like the Finals round of the Brewers Cup than a cafe menu. There will be a total of seven ultra-rare coffees on offer across the three cafes. Four coffees—a washed low-caf Laurina variety and a washed Especial Gesha from Panama’s Hacienda La Esmeralda, an anaerobic natural Eugenioides from Finca Inmaculada in Colombia, and an anaerobic natural Typica Mejoardo grown by Mauricio Shattah on Finca La Negrita in Colombia—will be available at all three locations, with each spot having a unique fifth offering.
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420 W Geer Street will have a natural processed Best of Yemen lot produced by Al Oqabi Women Farmers, of which Little Waves is the only roaster in America to have won a lot from this year’s Best of Yemen auction, meaning it’s probably your only chance to taste this coffee. 2013 Chapel Hill Road will have another coffee from Finca Inmaculada in Valle de Cauca, this one an anaerobic natural Sudan Rumé. And 2627 Hillsborough Road will be the only location to have a coffee grown domestically, a yeast-fermented washed SL34 grown in Kona, Hawaii. A similar coffee from this farm recently fetched over $450 per pound at the record-breaking Dubai Multi Commodities Centre Specialty Coffee Auction that took place as part of World of Coffee Dubai.
They’ll also have a Rio Dulce Gesha from Cafe 1959 in Colombia and a Pink Bourbon from Edwin Noreña at Cafe Hermoso in Colombia, the latter of which was used in Little Waves’s run to the Semi-Finals of last year’s Brewers Cup.
So even if you can’t sidle up to the judge’s table, you can still get the full Brewers Cup experience this weekend at any of the three Cocoa Cinnamon locations in Durham, North Carolina. For more information, check out Little Waves Coffee Roasters’s Instagram account.
Zac Cadwalader is the managing editor at Sprudge Media Network and a staff writer based in Dallas. Read more Zac Cadwalader on Sprudge.
